Kupcsik Adrián. CV Statement portfolio

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1 Kupcsik Adrián CV Statement portfolio

2 *1969 Miskolc, Hungary lives and works in Budapest, Hungary Educations: Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, painting department Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, DLA course Solo Exhibitions: Thightrope Walk (with Géza Perneczky and Borsos Lőrinc), Chimera-Project, Budapest Flood, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miskolc, Hungary Good, Municipal Gallery, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest Functioning of the heart, Deák Erika Gallery Adult portrait, Liget Gallery Message, Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam Group Shows: Freehand, Modem, Debrecen - Turning Points, National Gallery, Budapest A la carte, George Kepes Institute, Eger - What Is Hungarian? Contemporary Answers, Kunsthalle, Budapest Giovanni artisti, Potenza, Italy - Joy and disaster, SMAK, Gent, Belgium Relationships, Deák Collection, Székesfehérvár - Donumenta, Regensburg, Germany VOLTA 5, Basel Lenmechanics, Ernst museum, Budapest Summer Jewish Festival, Budapest Space Art, Millenáris D hall, Budapest EU-Positive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Germany) Aura, After the era of technical reproducibility, Millenáris Park,Budapest - Madrid, Communidad De Madrid, Cruising Danubio, (Spain) Systematica, SAIC, Chichago (USA) - Ludwig Museum Budapest, Strabag exhibition - ArtPrimeur 2002, Dordrecht (Netherlands) Short stories, Budapest Gallery Exhibition Hall, Budapest - Klimate, Kunsthalle, Budapest - Contemporary Hungarian Painters, Lewerkusen (Germany) - Je regretterais beaucoup..., FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen (France) Awards & Grants: 1998 CW Bank Austria, International fine art competition 1999 Ludwig, Foundation prize 2000 Deutche Telekom,, fine art competition 2002 Strabag, painting competition

Gallery, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest 2009 - Functioning of the heart, Deák Erika Gallery 2008 - Adult portrait, Liget Gallery 2004 - Message, Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam Group Shows: 2014 - Freehand,

3 Artistic statement Adrián Kupcsik developed a versatile but unified pictorial language and a highly conceptual artistic practice based on a series of transformation processes, crossing different medias, such as painting, photography, drawing and sculpture. Kupcsik is distilling his own dialect from the great eras of painting: mixing the pictorial rhetoric of the analytical cubism, futurism and the artist s earlier works cyberpunk characteristics gives birth to a new aesthetic. This results not only in a radical reinterpretation of the classical historical genres of painting, but suggests a contemporary and dystopian reading of the fetishisation of power, either in sexuality, in personality cult, or in the artistic canon. The central term of his artistic process he describes as decomposition. Adrián Kupcsik s endeavour lies in the deconstruction of iconic figurative images: first he builds his chosen iconic figurative reference in a mock-up from leftovers found in his studio, and then immediately starts to manually decompose it. This step by step process is documented with photos. The final artwork captures the last stadium of deconstruction, either in photo, painted on canvas or as a drawing. Since the destroyed mock-ups are built of leftovers from former painting processes, the sampling of Kupcsik not only becomes a reinterpretation of the iconic images but always includes a direct reflection of his own personal past as a painter alike. In his work, Kupcsik explores how the representation of reality can acquire symbolic and metaphorical meanings. His paintings are often compositions based on groups of arranged objects or fragmented spaces, in search of today s definition of the classical values and techniques of the medium.

Kupcsik is distilling his own dialect from the great eras of painting: mixing the pictorial rhetoric of the analytical cubism, futurism and the artist s earlier works cyberpunk characteristics gives

4 Paintings and drawings

5 Luc the Painter, 2015, oil on canvas, 120x86 cm

6 Les Messieurs et Demoiselles d Avignon III., 2015, szén/papír, charcoal/paper, 100x70 cm

7 Luc the Painter, 2015, szén/papír, 100x70 cm Luc the Painter, 2015, charcoal/paper, 100x70 cm

8 People from Avignon, 2015, o/v, 130x115 cm People from Avignon., 2015, oil/canvas, 130x115 cm

9 Cut, Paste III., 2015, o/v, 115x80 cm Cut, Paste III., 2015, oil/canvas, 115x80 cm

10 Meanwhile in Avignon, 2015, o/v, 150x110 cm Meanwhile in Avignon, 2015, oli/canvas, 150x110 cm

11 Monsieur et Mademoiselle Avignon, 2015, o/v, 140x96 cm Monsieur et Mademoiselle Avignon, oil/canvas, 140x96 cm

12 Miss Avignon, 2015, olaj/vászon, 140x100 cm Miss Avignon, 2015, oil/canvas, 140x100 cm

13 Francesco Maria the painter, 2015, olaj/vászon, 90x90 cm Francesco Maria the painter, 2015, oil/canvas, 90x90 cm

14 Mikhail the politician, 2015, olaj/vászon, 70x45 cm Mikhail the politician, 2015, oil/canvas, 70x45 cm

15 Sir Nicholas the powerful 2015, olaj/vászon, 100x70 cm Sir Nicholas the powerful 2015, oil/canvas, 100x70 cm

16 A Pápa formája, 2014, olaj/vászon, 150x150 cm Pope s Shape 2014, oil/canvas, 150x150 cm

17 Cut, Paste II., 2014, o/v, 90x80 cm Cut, Paste II., 2014, o/c, 90x80 cm

18 Maggie a rádiós, 2014, o/v, 72x85 cm Maggie the Operator, 2014, o/c, 72x85 cm

19 Szergej az űrjhajós, 2014, o/v 85x120 cm Sergey the Astronaut, 2014, o/c, 85x120 cm

20 Cut, Paste, 2014, o/v, 120x80 cm Cut, Paste, 2014, o/c, 120x80 cm

21 Angela und Viktor, 2014, o/v, 70x50 cm Angela und Viktor, 2014, o/c, 70x50 cm

22 Hans-Ulrich a kurátor, 2014, o/v, 90x77 cm Hans-Ulrich the Curator, 2014, o/c, 90x77 cm

23 Giovanni e Giovanna, 2014, o/v, 120x160 cm Giovanni e Giovanna, 2014, o/c, 120x160 cm

24 Dekonstruált reggeli, 2014, o/v, 140x110 cm Deconstructed Breakfast, 2014, o/c, 140x110 cm

25 A festészet hanyatlása, 2014, olaj/vászon, 120x110 cm Decay of Painting, 2014, oil/canvas, 120x110 cm

26 Makett, 2013, olaj/vászon, 72x100 cm Mock-Up, 2013, oil/canvas, 72x100 cm

27 Vidám panelház II., 2012, szén/papír, 100x70 cm Happy Bolcks II., 2012, charcoal/paper, 100x70 cm

28 Magasles, 2012, szén/papír, 100x70 cm Raised hide, 2012, charcoal/paper, 100x70 cm

29 Közösségi erdő, 2012, szén/papír, 70x100 cm Community forest, 2012, charcoal/paper, 70x100 cm

30 Panellakások rakétaplatformon, 2012, szén/papír, 100x70 cm Blocks on launcpad, 2012, charcoal/paper, 100x70 cm

31 Háromemeletes ház, 2011, olaj/fatábla, 100x70 cm 3-Storey house, 2011, oil/wood panel, 100x70 cm

32 Úszó templom, 2011, olaj/fatábla, 70x100 cm Floating church, 2011, oil/wood panel, 70x100 cm

33 Disznóól pilléreken, 2011, olaj/fatábla, 70x100 cm Piggery on pillars, 2011, oil/wood panel, 70x100 cm

34 Árvízkárosultak 1-12, 2011, olaj/fatábla, 30x40 cm egyenként Flood victims 1-12, 2011, oil/wood panel, 30x40 cm each

35 Parasztház fejjel lefelé, 2011, papir/vegyes technika, 70x100 cm Floating farmhouse upside down, 2011, paper/ mixed technic, 70x100 cm

36 Lebegő konténerházak, 2011, papir/vegyes technika, 70x100 cm Floating container houses, 2011, paper/mixed technic, 70x100 cm

38 Empátia csendélet, 2009, olaj/fatábla, 70x50 cm Empathic still life, 2009, oil/wood, 70x50 cm

39 Csendélet E.M. számára, 2008, olaj/fatábla, 100x150 cm Still life for E.M., 2008, oil/wood, 100x150 cm

40 Cigány-, Zsidó-, Kínai önarckép, 2008, olaj/vászon, 100x75 cm Gipsy-, Jewish-, Chinese selfportrait, 2008, oil/wood, 100x75 cm

41 Afgán-, Afrikai-, Indiai-, Tatár-, Tibeti-, Török önarckép, 2008, papír, 100x70 cm Afghan-, African-, Indian-, Tataric-, Tibetan-, Turkish selfportrait, 2008, paper, 100x70 cm

Tower 2003 (painted scale-modell of a building, lamp-shell, synthetic grass, painted glass parts, on wooden stand 100x50x40cm

Tower 2003 (painted scale-modell of a building, lamp-shell, synthetic grass, painted glass parts, on wooden stand 100x50x40cm Research Lab on Mountain 2001, Exhibition view Field with Lab and Solar Power-plant